Cream Cheese Walnut Banana Bread Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
• Combine butter, brown sugar, 1 egg, sour cream, 1/4 cup white sugar, and vanilla extract in a large bowl; whisk until smooth. Mash in bananas using a fork. Whisk in 1 cup flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt until just combined.
• Whisk cream cheese, 1 egg, 1/4 cup white sugar, and 3 tablespoons flour together in a separate bowl.
• Pour half of the banana mixture into the prepared loaf pan. Spread cream cheese mixture evenly on top. Pour remaining banana mixture over cream cheese mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven until top is firm, about 50 minutes. Cool in the pan, about 5 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
• Beat together the cream cheese, sugar, butter, eggs, and banana in a large bowl until very smooth. Stir in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and walnuts until just combined. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

Steps:

• Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition. Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; gradually add to butter mixture, beating at low speed just until blended. Stir in bananas, pecans, and vanilla. Spoon batter into 2 greased and floured 8x4 inch loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees fahrenheit for 1 hour or until a long wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean and sides pull away from pan, shielding with aluminum foil last 15 minutes to prevent browning, if necessary. I found that after one hour, my banana bread wasn't completely cooked through. I ended up baking it for an extra 10-15 minutes. Cool bread in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove from pans, and cool 30 minutes on wire racks before slicing.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F and grease 2 loaf pans (8x4-inch).
• Beat butter and cream cheese together until smooth using a stand mixer until creamy.
• While the mixer is still on, add the sugar slowly, letting it combine.
• Add the eggs one at a time, again letting each egg combine before adding the next.
• Combine the flour, baking powder and soda, and salt. At this point make sure everything else is ready to combine, because once the flour hits the batter, you want to mix as little as possible. Add the flour slowly to the mixture as the mixer is going.
• Turn off the mixer and add the bananas, nuts, and vanilla. Turn the mixer on briefly to combine.
• Spoon the batter into the loaf pans and bake for 50 minutes to one hour, or until a wooden toothpick inserted comes out clean (or slightly damp if you like your banana bread slightly on the undercooked side, with a gummy top *yum*).
• Cool in the pan at least 10 minutes, remove and cool on a rack for at least 30 more minutes if you want nice clean slices.
• Note, you do not need a stand mixer to make this recipe. You could even do all this mixing by hand, it will just take longer. Simply add everything in little bits (maybe 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup at a time) and stir in between until it is mixed. Do not over beat once you have added the flour though, or the bread will be tough.

Steps:

• Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with electric mixer, until creamy.
• Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
• Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; gradually add to butter mixture, beating at low speed just until blended.
• Stir in bananas, pecans, and vanilla.
• Spoon batter into 2 greased and floured 8 x 4 inch loafpans.
• Bake at 350º for 1 hour, or until tests clean. (Shield with foil the last 15 minutes to prevent browning, if necessary.
• Cool bread in pans on wire racks 10 minutes.
• Remove from pans, and cool 30 minutes on wire racks before slicing.
• Orange Pecan Topping:.
• Sprinkle pecans over batter before baking.
• Cool bread 10 minutes, remove from pans.
• Stir together sugar, orange juice and orange rind.
• Drizzle evenly over warm bread.
• Cinnamon-Crisp Topping.
• Stir together brown sugar, toasted pecans, flour, melted butter and cinnamon.
• Sprinle mixture evenly over batter.
• Bake and cool bread.